Knife Making - Japanese Tanto (from old file) 

Such a masterpiece! That knife is a recognition of the blacksmith's excellent effort.

I spend a lot of time in my shop working on blades, and when I'm not, I'm usually watching videos about bladesmithing. This is some fine work! The effort to show the making of all the fittings, saya, tsuba, and tsuka. Great job! I love the shinogi zukuri blade with the longer kissaki/boshi. It's beautifully done. I can't say enough good about this piece. You should take great pride in this work. Thank you for sharing your work and taking the extra time to film it for us.

6:08 you’ve invoked the muse-in this case, This Old Tony. 😊 Gotta say, the finished product is magnificent. I love the blade and all those fittings come together perfectly. For someone who claims to not know what he’s doing, you sure know how to get results.

This is WAY better than most Tanto videoes you'll find on youtube. Very well made and love to see the whole prosess.

Your file and belt work is really fine!!! Great job! I can’t imagine to see what you would be able to do with a full shop with the best tools and machinery!!!

This is the best modern-technique video I’ve seen for a tanto. Has all the fittings and everything, minus the menuki (handle ornament). Any modern bladesmith (including myself) ought to have respect for the time, effort and skill that went into this blade. Well done!

Ну наконец-то на просторах интернета встретился аутентичный танто) Браво.

for a brother who "does not know what one is doing" and humble, quite kool and impressive... bravo: )

I was searching for a tanto video and this was the first one to take my attention

Doug would love the blade, laugh at the setup and just admire the effort

Absolutely beautiful. Great work

well done!! you did a great job!! the real definition of handmade. 🤩🤩🤩

2:14 Mans filing a file with a file. I love the irony.

good job...beautiful tanto!

Insane job, period!

Amazing! the tanto looks great.

Masterful work, from a smith much better than I. You've earned a subscriber.

Amazing work, seriously!

Awesome! Now you have to make the katana to go with it! Good luck finding a giant file...

Awesome job, I think everything turned out great!!!!

Amazing work !

That is a seriously impressive blade, very well done. Loved it.

Doug would definitely say..."it will keaaaaalllll"....🙌🙌🙌

Excellent work mate, great attention to detail, and you made the most of what you had. Well done!

Wow you did a great job! It looks great!

Absolutely beautiful

Hey Blacksmiths, I would love to see a traditional bright sword from the middle ages, that would be lovely surprise for me... so when you got some time I would love to see you try!!! Thanks now 😂😉👍

Good job. It is beautiful knife.

Your weapon will KEEEEEEL. 🤣 That's beautiful. For your first attempt at a traditional Japanese blade, that's 100x better than I could do. Great job!

This is so badass and impressive I’m honestly speachless!!

Very nice work. I am sure Hanzo is quite happy with your work. Adam

You did a great job...beautiful hamon line, even its not real one but it looks just like real and its enough satisfying...good skills of making...

That is nicely done.

Bellissimo. Ottimo lavoro. Bravo.

Great work! 👏

Bravo re megale. nice job

Great job! So many fitting is right.

Fantastic work

Very Beautiful Tanto 👍👍👍Great hand work 👍👍Great video 👍👍

very nice blade and fittings.

Beautiful knife brother

Bravissimo!!! Ottimo lavoro!!!

Man that turned out amazing. All the fittings look fantastic and the blade too. It deserves a menuki too upon shoelace replacement.

My god this is beautiful. And I really like the Hamon, it looks like a very traditional one, not made by an ork. Beautiful work!

Wow look at the detail, you're talented, Bro! Keep it up!

Sincerely, Wonderful Job!!!

This was relaxing to watch

These are the kinds of videos I like to see. I’ve seen so many tanto videos and they don’t even make Most of the hardware correctly like you have. Good job man.

Awesome work!! Can't wait to see more. Subscribed!

very nice job and congratulations 👍👍👍

Amazing Jon man

Great work, very nice Tanto.

Good work!

You did a great job on that beautiful tanto

Beautiful blade bro!

dude just because the hamon isn't especially neat, doesn't mean you didn't do an excellent job in forming it properly. I personally like the rougher look of it. It's a quite charming bit of untidiness that helps distinguish it from most of the examples you see, and i really think that adds to it.

Huge respects to you sir, I don't think I've seen a single video of the making of a tanto/wakizashi/katana that did everything as right as this, even down to the shitodome, this is truly fantastic. (Bar maybe the "samegawa" but I can't hold that against you as the real stuff is difficult to get a hold of) Bladesmith to bladesmith, hats off to you.

Thanks for the awesome build and video, hope to try it myself sometime

this is what you called talent

Great work man, you're a talented craftsman.nice shape and dimension of blade.

Dang that looks good

He used the file to file the file. Smort

awesome tanto,you are great knifemaker

Stunning and a beauty Great

Wow Nice Tool Making

it's beautiful work buddy, if i've made this knife, i would do it full-tang

Nice blades! Good for CQCs and CQBs!

Very nice work

Bahut mehanat karke aapne sunder cheez banai....sirji

Sir, i see no heresy in your work! :)

You're so funny! xD and very talented! keep it up... hugs from Brazil!

Love how much time was put in this blade/project especially the habaki with those small details hamon looks nice I'm japanese sword practitioner. Love your work and good content and you probably inspire others to forging most importantly good kid looks really authentic to a real modern japanese blade with a real ito will look different.

Great work!!!!😁😁😁😁

Good job man🔥🔥🔥

Amazing video showing some of the finer detail. And great finished blade!!! I'd buy it!!

Make sure you oil it! such a beautiful dagger!

Very beautiful...❤️❤️❤️

For the ito wrapping, i recommend a vice. Itll give you a REALLY tight grip. I also recommend using skate laces instead of shoe laces, especially the thick kind. These both will give you such a tight grip that you wont even be able to move the wrapping at all. I even go the extra mile to lightly scorch my wrapping to give it a shiny and tightened look that also gives it a little bit of sweat resistance. Wonderful video!!!

This what I call perfection

You've got a lot more knowledge than most my friend you actually made the whole fitting set for that blade when most don't even go half as far as you did great blade bro

Lord knows I only have the patience to cook pasta to feed myself than making this. Beautiful work and nice knowing where all the parts came from. Wish I can order one and afford it

I looked at the final product and thought: Wow!!! Thiers no way he does this good a job and is not making a living off of this!!! Also when I saw the final product my mind and eyes were drooling saying: Damn!!! Hopefully I can make this one day if I get into knife making 🔪 🗡.

te felicito una verdadera obra de arte desde Venezuela te saludo

Really good mate! ! That hamon was a money shot! You've got a spectrum of skills across smithing, leather, sharpening,timber, This is 2 years later I bet your ito maki got better , I started with shoelaces too 👍 ( ended up on paracord- it is just the most practical and can bind so hard)

Beautiful

Nice man!

cool video!

Amazing...I Like sword japanes...

Fantastic vids. Subbed.

Nice work bro!

I like this knife and think it's a pretty good work Bro!!! I wish it was mine!! 😅

AMAZING work man

красиво и аккуратно. очень понравилось.

I wish I could do this one day

This is awesome

Sweet knife

おお！これはまさに短刀です！😊

este video es tan relajante que lo voy viendo 8 veces

Verry nice 🤩

Sólo queda aplaudir!!!